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Information Retrieval: Advanced Topics and Techniques

Edited by Omar Alonso, Ricardo Baeza-Yates ...

Series series ACM Books
In the last decade, deep learning and word embeddings have made significant impacts on information retrieval (IR) by adding techniques based in neural networks and language models. At the same time, certain search modalities such as neural IR and conversational search have become more popular. This book, written by international academic and industry experts, brings the field up to date with ... Read more

$84.23 USD

In the last decade, deep learning and word embeddings have made significant impacts on information retrieval (IR) by adding techniques based in neural networks and language models. At the same time, certain search modalities such as neural IR and conversational search have become more popular. This book, written by international academic and industry experts, brings the field up to date with
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Ethics of Big Data

Balancing Risk and Innovation

by Kord Davis ...

What are your organization’s policies for generating and using huge datasets full of personal information? This book examines ethical questions raised by the big data phenomenon, and explains why enterprises need to reconsider business decisions concerning privacy and identity. Authors Kord Davis and Doug Patterson provide methods and techniques to help your business engage in a transparent and ... Read more

$9.62 USD

What are your organization’s policies for generating and using huge datasets full of personal information? This book examines ethical questions raised by the big data phenomenon, and explains why enterprises need to reconsider business decisions concerning privacy and identity. Authors Kord Davis and Doug Patterson provide methods and techniques to help your business engage in a transparent and
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Writing and Querying MapReduce Views in CouchDB

Tools for Data Analysts

by Bradley Holt ...

If you want to use CouchDB to support real-world applications, you'll need to create MapReduce views that let you query this document-oriented database for meaningful data. With this short and concise ebook, you'll learn how to create a variety of MapReduce views to help you query and aggregate data in CouchDB’s large, distributed datasets.You'll get step-by-step instructions and lots of sample ... Read more

$11.78 USD

If you want to use CouchDB to support real-world applications, you'll need to create MapReduce views that let you query this document-oriented database for meaningful data. With this short and concise ebook, you'll learn how to create a variety of MapReduce views to help you query and aggregate data in CouchDB’s large, distributed datasets.You'll get step-by-step instructions and lots of sample
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Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL

Building Effective Database-Driven Web Sites

by Hugh E. Williams, David Lane ...

There are many reasons for serving up dynamic content from a web site: to offer an online shopping site, create customized information pages for users, or just manage a large volume of content through a database. Anyone with a modest knowledge of HTML and web site management can learn to create dynamic content through the PHP programming language and the MySQL database. This book gives you the ... Read more

$25.91 USD

There are many reasons for serving up dynamic content from a web site: to offer an online shopping site, create customized information pages for users, or just manage a large volume of content through a database. Anyone with a modest knowledge of HTML and web site management can learn to create dynamic content through the PHP programming language and the MySQL database. This book gives you the
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Big Data Management and Analytics

by Brij B Gupta, Mamta ...

Series Book 1 - World Scientific Series on Future Computing Paradigms and Applications
With the proliferation of information, big data management and analysis have become an indispensable part of any system to handle such amounts of data. The amount of data generated by the multitude of interconnected devices increases exponentially, making the storage and processing of these data a real challenge.Big data management and analytics have gained momentum in almost every industry, ... Read more

$28.34 USD

With the proliferation of information, big data management and analysis have become an indispensable part of any system to handle such amounts of data. The amount of data generated by the multitude of interconnected devices increases exponentially, making the storage and processing of these data a real challenge.Big data management and analytics have gained momentum in almost every industry,
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SQL Crash Course

A Practical Guide From Beginner to Interview-Ready Expert

by Vajo Lukic ...

SQL Crash Course: From SQL Beginner to SQL Interview-Ready ExpertMaster SQL database development, query optimization, and data analysis with this comprehensive guide featuring 350+ practical examples and 140+ interview questions. Progress from basic SQL commands to advanced database management, covering PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQL Server techniques.Transform your data engineering skills through ... Read more

$7.44 USD

SQL Crash Course: From SQL Beginner to SQL Interview-Ready ExpertMaster SQL database development, query optimization, and data analysis with this comprehensive guide featuring 350+ practical examples and 140+ interview questions. Progress from basic SQL commands to advanced database management, covering PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQL Server techniques.Transform your data engineering skills through
... Read more
Circuits, Packets, and Protocols

Entrepreneurs and Computer Communications, 1968-1988

by James L. Pelkey, Andrew L. Russell, Loring G. Robbins ...

Series series ACM Books
As recently as 1968, computer scientists were uncertain how best to interconnect even two computers. The notion that within a few decades the challenge would be how to interconnect millions of computers around the globe was too far-fetched to contemplate. Yet, by 1988, that is precisely what was happening. The products and devices developed in the intervening years—such as modems, multiplexers, ... Read more

$116.54 USD

As recently as 1968, computer scientists were uncertain how best to interconnect even two computers. The notion that within a few decades the challenge would be how to interconnect millions of computers around the globe was too far-fetched to contemplate. Yet, by 1988, that is precisely what was happening. The products and devices developed in the intervening years—such as modems, multiplexers,
... Read more
Scaling CouchDB

Replication, Clustering, and Administration

by Bradley Holt ...

This practical guide offers a short course on scaling CouchDB to meet the capacity needs of your distributed application. Through a series of scenario-based examples, this book lets you explore several methods for creating a system that can accommodate growth and meet expected demand. In the process, you learn about several tools that can help you with replication, load balancing, clustering, and ... Read more

$7.82 USD

This practical guide offers a short course on scaling CouchDB to meet the capacity needs of your distributed application. Through a series of scenario-based examples, this book lets you explore several methods for creating a system that can accommodate growth and meet expected demand. In the process, you learn about several tools that can help you with replication, load balancing, clustering, and
... Read more
Getting Started with GEO, CouchDB, and Node.js

New Open Source Tools for Location Data

by Mick Thompson ...

Today's mobile devices have GPS and standard APIs to give you access to coordinates—but what can you do with that data? With this concise book, application developers learn how to work with location data quickly and easily, using Node.js, CouchDB, and other open source tools and libraries.Node.js makes it simple to run event code on the Web, and the CouchDB document-oriented database lets you ... Read more

$10.43 USD

Today's mobile devices have GPS and standard APIs to give you access to coordinates—but what can you do with that data? With this concise book, application developers learn how to work with location data quickly and easily, using Node.js, CouchDB, and other open source tools and libraries.Node.js makes it simple to run event code on the Web, and the CouchDB document-oriented database lets you
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R in a Nutshell

A Desktop Quick Reference

by Joseph Adler ...

If you’re considering R for statistical computing and data visualization, this book provides a quick and practical guide to just about everything you can do with the open source R language and software environment. You’ll learn how to write R functions and use R packages to help you prepare, visualize, and analyze data. Author Joseph Adler illustrates each process with a wealth of examples from ... Read more

$33.11 USD

If you’re considering R for statistical computing and data visualization, this book provides a quick and practical guide to just about everything you can do with the open source R language and software environment. You’ll learn how to write R functions and use R packages to help you prepare, visualize, and analyze data. Author Joseph Adler illustrates each process with a wealth of examples from
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Visualizing Data

Exploring and Explaining Data with the Processing Environment

by Ben Fry ...

Enormous quantities of data go unused or underused today, simply because people can't visualize the quantities and relationships in it. Using a downloadable programming environment developed by the author, Visualizing Data demonstrates methods for representing data accurately on the Web and elsewhere, complete with user interaction, animation, and more.How do the 3.1 billion A, C, G and T letters ... Read more

$20.78 USD

Enormous quantities of data go unused or underused today, simply because people can't visualize the quantities and relationships in it. Using a downloadable programming environment developed by the author, Visualizing Data demonstrates methods for representing data accurately on the Web and elsewhere, complete with user interaction, animation, and more.How do the 3.1 billion A, C, G and T letters
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Agile Data Science 2.0

Building Full-Stack Data Analytics Applications with Spark

by Russell Jurney ...

Data science teams looking to turn research into useful analytics applications require not only the right tools, but also the right approach if they’re to succeed. With the revised second edition of this hands-on guide, up-and-coming data scientists will learn how to use the Agile Data Science development methodology to build data applications with Python, Apache Spark, Kafka, and other tools ... Read more

$33.11 USD

Data science teams looking to turn research into useful analytics applications require not only the right tools, but also the right approach if they’re to succeed. With the revised second edition of this hands-on guide, up-and-coming data scientists will learn how to use the Agile Data Science development methodology to build data applications with Python, Apache Spark, Kafka, and other tools
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Sharing Big Data Safely

Managing Data Security

by Ted Dunning, Ellen Friedman ...

Many big data-driven companies today are moving to protect certain types of data against intrusion, leaks, or unauthorized eyes. But how do you lock down data while granting access to people who need to see it? In this practical book, authors Ted Dunning and Ellen Friedman offer two novel and practical solutions that you can implement right away.Ideal for both technical and non-technical decision ... Read more

$14.30 USD

Many big data-driven companies today are moving to protect certain types of data against intrusion, leaks, or unauthorized eyes. But how do you lock down data while granting access to people who need to see it? In this practical book, authors Ted Dunning and Ellen Friedman offer two novel and practical solutions that you can implement right away.Ideal for both technical and non-technical decision
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Architecting Modern Data Platforms

A Guide to Enterprise Hadoop at Scale

by Jan Kunigk, Ian Buss, Paul Wilkinson, Lars George ...

There’s a lot of information about big data technologies, but splicing these technologies into an end-to-end enterprise data platform is a daunting task not widely covered. With this practical book, you’ll learn how to build big data infrastructure both on-premises and in the cloud and successfully architect a modern data platform.Ideal for enterprise architects, IT managers, application ... Read more

$49.94 USD

There’s a lot of information about big data technologies, but splicing these technologies into an end-to-end enterprise data platform is a daunting task not widely covered. With this practical book, you’ll learn how to build big data infrastructure both on-premises and in the cloud and successfully architect a modern data platform.Ideal for enterprise architects, IT managers, application
... Read more
Python Polars: The Definitive Guide

Transforming, Analyzing, and Visualizing Data with a Fast and Expressive DataFrame API

by Jeroen Janssens, Thijs Nieuwdorp ...

Unlock the power of Polars, a Python package for transforming, analyzing, and visualizing data. In this hands-on guide, Jeroen Janssens and Thijs Nieuwdorp walk you through every feature of Polars, showing you how to use it for real-world tasks like data wrangling, exploratory data analysis, building pipelines, and more.Whether you're a seasoned data professional or new to data science, you'll ... Read more

$44.09 USD

Unlock the power of Polars, a Python package for transforming, analyzing, and visualizing data. In this hands-on guide, Jeroen Janssens and Thijs Nieuwdorp walk you through every feature of Polars, showing you how to use it for real-world tasks like data wrangling, exploratory data analysis, building pipelines, and more.Whether you're a seasoned data professional or new to data science, you'll
... Read more
Google Compute Engine

Managing Secure and Scalable Cloud Computing

by Marc Cohen, Kathryn Hurley, Paul Newson ...

Learn how to run large-scale, data-intensive workloads with Compute Engine, Google’s cloud platform. Written by Google engineers, this tutorial walks you through the details of this Infrastructure as a Service by showing you how to develop a project with it from beginning to end. You’ll learn best practices for using Compute Engine, with a focus on solving practical problems.With programming ... Read more

$15.56 USD

Learn how to run large-scale, data-intensive workloads with Compute Engine, Google’s cloud platform. Written by Google engineers, this tutorial walks you through the details of this Infrastructure as a Service by showing you how to develop a project with it from beginning to end. You’ll learn best practices for using Compute Engine, with a focus on solving practical problems.With programming
... Read more
Scaling MongoDB

Sharding, Cluster Setup, and Administration

by Kristina Chodorow ...

Create a MongoDB cluster that will grow to meet the needs of your application. With this short and concise book, you'll get guidelines for setting up and using clusters to store a large volume of data, and learn how to access the data efficiently. In the process, you'll understand how to make your application work with a distributed database system.Scaling MongoDB will help you:Set up a MongoDB ... Read more

$11.78 USD

Create a MongoDB cluster that will grow to meet the needs of your application. With this short and concise book, you'll get guidelines for setting up and using clusters to store a large volume of data, and learn how to access the data efficiently. In the process, you'll understand how to make your application work with a distributed database system.Scaling MongoDB will help you:Set up a MongoDB
... Read more
Mastering Shiny

by Hadley Wickham ...

Master the Shiny web framework—and take your R skills to a whole new level. By letting you move beyond static reports, Shiny helps you create fully interactive web apps for data analyses. Users will be able to jump between datasets, explore different subsets or facets of the data, run models with parameter values of their choosing, customize visualizations, and much more.Hadley Wickham from ... Read more

$44.09 USD

Master the Shiny web framework—and take your R skills to a whole new level. By letting you move beyond static reports, Shiny helps you create fully interactive web apps for data analyses. Users will be able to jump between datasets, explore different subsets or facets of the data, run models with parameter values of their choosing, customize visualizations, and much more.Hadley Wickham from
... Read more
The Importance of New Technologies and Entrepreneurship in Business Development: In The Context of Economic Diversity in Developing Countries

The Impact of New Technologies and Entrepreneurship on Business Development

Edited by Bahaaeddin Alareeni, Allam Hamdan, Islam Elgedawy ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
This book introduces the students, researchers and practitioners into the subject and enabling technologies and applications pertaining to of technology, entrepreneurship and business development through research articles, case studies etc. It is primarily intended for academic purposes for learners of computer Science, management, accounting and information systems disciplines, economics,- ... Read more

$169.28 USD

This book introduces the students, researchers and practitioners into the subject and enabling technologies and applications pertaining to of technology, entrepreneurship and business development through research articles, case studies etc. It is primarily intended for academic purposes for learners of computer Science, management, accounting and information systems disciplines, economics,-
... Read more
Information Systems for Intelligent Systems

Proceedings of ISBM 2025, Volume 10

Edited by Andres Iglesias, Jungpil Shin, Nityesh Bhatt, Amit Joshi ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
This book includes selected papers presented at the World Conference on Information Systems for Business Management (ISBM 2025), held in Bangkok, Thailand, on September 24–26, 2025. It covers up-to-date cutting-edge research on data science, information systems, infrastructure and computational systems, engineering systems, business information systems, and smart secure systems. ... Read more

$225.98 USD

This book includes selected papers presented at the World Conference on Information Systems for Business Management (ISBM 2025), held in Bangkok, Thailand, on September 24–26, 2025. It covers up-to-date cutting-edge research on data science, information systems, infrastructure and computational systems, engineering systems, business information systems, and smart secure systems.
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Smart Machines

IBM's Watson and the Era of Cognitive Computing

by Steve Hamm, John Kelly III ...

We are crossing a new frontier in the evolution of computing and entering the era of cognitive systems. The victory of IBM's Watson on the television quiz show Jeopardy! revealed how scientists and engineers at IBM and elsewhere are pushing the boundaries of science and technology to create machines that sense, learn, reason, and interact with people in new ways to provide insight and advice.In ... Read more

$14.30 USD

We are crossing a new frontier in the evolution of computing and entering the era of cognitive systems. The victory of IBM's Watson on the television quiz show Jeopardy! revealed how scientists and engineers at IBM and elsewhere are pushing the boundaries of science and technology to create machines that sense, learn, reason, and interact with people in new ways to provide insight and advice.In
... Read more
Digital Transformation on Manufacturing, Infrastructure & Service

DTMIS 2022

Edited by Igor Ilin, Mariana Mateeva Petrova, Tatiana Kudryavtseva ...

Series Book 684 - Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
This book contains theoretical, econometric, experimental, and policy-oriented contributions of the DTMIS conference participants. Every year the DTMIS conference brings together experts from academia and industry to uncover the challenges and solutions to ensuring digital transformation on manufacturing, infrastructure, and service.The DTMIS proceedings is distinguished by the fact that it ... Read more

$234.08 USD

This book contains theoretical, econometric, experimental, and policy-oriented contributions of the DTMIS conference participants. Every year the DTMIS conference brings together experts from academia and industry to uncover the challenges and solutions to ensuring digital transformation on manufacturing, infrastructure, and service.The DTMIS proceedings is distinguished by the fact that it
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Information Technology and Systems

ICITS 2024, Volume 1

Edited by Álvaro Rocha, Carlos Ferrás, Jorge Hochstetter Diez, Mauricio Diéguez Rebolledo ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
This book is composed by the papers written in English and accepted for presentation and discussion at The 2024 International Conference on Information Technology & Systems (ICITS'24), held at Universidad de La Frontera, in Temuco, Chile, between the 24th and the 26th of January 2024.ICIST is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss recent findings and innovations, ... Read more

$169.28 USD

This book is composed by the papers written in English and accepted for presentation and discussion at The 2024 International Conference on Information Technology & Systems (ICITS'24), held at Universidad de La Frontera, in Temuco, Chile, between the 24th and the 26th of January 2024.ICIST is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss recent findings and innovations,
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Good Practices and New Perspectives in Information Systems and Technologies

WorldCIST 2024, Volume 5

Edited by Álvaro Rocha, Hojjat Adeli, Gintautas Dzemyda, Fernando Moreira, Aneta Poniszewska-Marańda ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
This book is composed by a selection of articles from the 12th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST'24), held between 26 and 28 of March 2024, at Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland.WorldCIST is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss recent results and innovations, current trends, professional experiences and challenges of ... Read more

$193.58 USD

This book is composed by a selection of articles from the 12th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST'24), held between 26 and 28 of March 2024, at Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland.WorldCIST is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss recent results and innovations, current trends, professional experiences and challenges of
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